Biografie:
Stephan Lupino (born Ivan Lepen)born 1952 in Varazdin, Croatia is a multi talented artist, but first a well respected and internationally renowned photographer. Besides that he has his own lingerie line and he designs furniture. Nowadays he lives in Croatia again, where he is working for Playboy and other magazines (fashion and nudes). His humanitarian photo projects includes a series of children with the syndrom of Down and of Sarajevo, the Bosnian city that suffered so much during the Balkan war.
Before returning to Croatia, Lupino pioneered in photography in New York. This early work is -in contrast with his modern photo’s- very unpolished. His 1988 book “The World. 254 E 2nd Street N.Y. City refers to the street where from 1983 to 1987 the notorious Culture Club “Area” was located. The club was a Sodom and Gomorra for artistic and progressive Americans, and was visited by people like Andy Warhol, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Steven Meisel, Zoë Lund, Malcolm McLaren, Matt Dillon, Roy Liechtenstein, David Hockney, Calvin Klein and Keith Haring. Art and sex went along, also in his improvised studio in the bathroom. Lupino’s work is collected by and shown in several musea, but still a kind of ‘trouvaille’ for investors and art lovers.
PHOTOGRAPHY:
BOOKS:
1. "en avant ! "
My life is around my pictures
My lovers are there too
My love is in my pictures
And hate must be there too
I live for the pictures
And I'll die for them too
So many memories are in these
Pictures and many more will
Emerge too
I will never stop taking
Pictures because without them
I don't exist true
-Stephan Lupino
Fotoband
Graphics-Photos-Art Verlag und Vertrieb GmbH München
1988
English, Deutsch
2. "The World"
The world is a drug-addictive, seductive, somewhat sleazy mind-altering scene.It has an anything-can-happen air about it, a dingy afterhours excitement. And it has Stephan Lupino.
Foto Buch
Graphics-Photos-Art Verlag und Vertrieb GmbH
1988
English
